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‘Metro’ Devs 4A Games Ready to Reveal Oculus Touch Title, First Glimpses Here

4A Games, the developers behind the popular sci-fi shooter franchise 'Metro', are not only allegedly working on an Oculus Rift title with Touch support, there's a chance we'll get to see it soon. In the mean time, this is...

InfinitEye 210 Degree HMD Technical Q&A: How does High FOV Virtual Reality Work?

We put your questions to the people behind the virtual reality HMD with a 210 degree field of view. Here are team InfinitEye's answers, exclusive to Road to VR. Your Questions: Answered. You may remember, a few weeks ago I headed...
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Square Enix Launches Its First Vive-exclusive Game, ‘Kai-ri-Sei Million Arthur VR’, in Japan

Videogame publisher and developer Square Enix, famous for its Final Fantasy franchise, among others, has launched its first game for the HTC Vive, Kai-ri-Sei Million Arthur VR in Japan. In collaboration with game developer GREE, Square Enix has published its first Vive title,...

Hands On: The Martian VR Experience is a Triumph in Motion

We went hands on with the new, real-time, VR experience inspired by the Ridley Scott movie 'The Martian' and found its mix of high production values, motion controllers combined with motion chairs seriously compelling. Ridley Scott's The Martian is a...
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Watch HypeVR’s Impressive Volumetric 360 3D Video In Action

HypeVR may be poised to alter the 360 video landscape with their depth-mapped, volumetric video system that lets VR users move in, out and around the captured scene. Watch Fox's Futurist Ted Schilowitz as he gives one of the...

PlayStation VR Sees the Return of the Demo Disc with 8 VR Games to Try in...

PlayStation VR arrives on October 13th, and with the promise of over 50 titles arriving by the end of year, Sony is sensibly providing demos of some of the key titles as a launch showcase. Sony has announced that each...

HelmetVR Combines an Oculus Rift with a Real Race Helmet

Said to be the world’s first VR sim racing helmet, the HelmetVR is perhaps the ultimate in VR sim racing excess, combining a real Arai racing helmet with an Oculus Rift headset. The custom headset comes from FormulaVR, a...

Crazy Camera Rig Captures Volumetric VR Video with 14 Cameras and LiDAR

HypeVR is working to bring live-action volumetric 360 video to VR. The company's crazy camera rig, built to capture the necessary data, is a mashup of high-end cameras and laser scanning tech. HypeVR recently shot a brief demonstration of the...

Oculus Founder Says Rift “Works fine” for Room-scale VR

Over the weekend, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey "Threw Oculus Sensors in opposing corners of this room for the hell of it," replicating a 'room-scale' VR setup like the HTC Vive. The result? "Works fine," he says. The notion of 'room-scale'...

Hands-on: Capcom’s Resident Evil “Kitchen” Demo is Terrifying on PSVR

Capcom brought its Resident Evil VII “Kitchen” demo to PAX West this year, and Road to VR went hands on to try it out. The demo takes place before the events of Resident Evil VII’s main storyline, and is...

The Oculus Rift DK2, In-Depth Review and DK1 Comparison

The long wait is over, the next generation Oculus Rift is here and it's a giant leap over what has come before. The second iteration of Oculus VR's VR Headset, the Development Kit 2 represents the culmination of many...

Latest Version of Touch has Better Tracking & Longer Range, Says Oculus

Oculus revealed Touch, their VR motion controllers, all the way back in June of 2015, but didn't commit to shipping the controllers until the second half of 2016. Since the announcement, the controller has seen several design permutations, but Oculus...
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‘Final Fantasy XV’ Trailer Released, “VR Experience” Coming to PlayStation VR

Final Fantasy fans can officially save their pennies, because the latest instalment, Final Fantasy XV, is making its way to PlayStation VR later this year - the only problem is we still don't know exactly what form the so-called VR experience will...

‘Testimony’ Uses VR to Create an Opportunity to Heal Sexual Assault Trauma and Raise Awareness

Testimony is one of the most profound and powerful applications of virtual reality that I've seen so far. It's an experimental documentary that captures the stories of sexual assault from five women broken up into five segments. You're completely...

PlayStation is Developing New First Party PSVR Titles With Support for Aim Controller

At a PlayStation VR session today at GDC, Sony stated that first-party PSVR titles with support for the new Aim peripheral are in development. Sony's curious looking Aim controller may not be the coolest looking peripheral out there (a dubious...
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